<p>My oldest sang " Beautiful" by Carole King at her high school graduation.
The recent tour by Taylor & KIng was EXTREMELY popular, not just with boomers.
( & my youngest listened to Really ROsie every night from age 2 to 4)</p>
<p>Thanks for the Carole King alert. I don’t watch American Idol, but I AM a huge Carole King fan. She defined my teenage years. I will be sure to watch AI this week.</p>
<p>I am showing my age, but “Gimme Some Lovin” by Spencer Davis Group is my all time favorite, along with anything with early Eric Clapton (Cream, Derek and the Dominos, Blind Faith etc).</p>
<p>re: Carole King, Tapestry has to be a top 10 classic album.</p>
<p>I was having dinner w colleagues in Amsterdam a few weeks ago and the topic of memorable music decades came up. We were unanimous that the 80s were the worst. The only memorable album we could come up with was ‘Thriller’. Anybody care to prove us wrong?</p>
<p>^^^What about Duran Duran? I keep my husband’s Sirius radio tuned on either First Wave or 80s on 8. Unfortunately, I was already a grown up when that music was out. My high school/college years were during the disco era. I do love the Bee Gees, though, especially their late 60s stuff. I Started A Joke, an alltime favorite.</p>
<p>I can count on two hands how many CDs I have with music post-1989 or so, and the majority of the music I love and own is from the mid-60’s to late 70’s era. More and more lately, when I listen to my music I find myself saying “he’s dead” or “she’s dead”, or “THEY’RE dead.” Saddens me so. I’m proud that my own 23-year-old D is a great fan of the music I love. She’s heard it from the time she was in my womb.</p>
<p>It seemed when I was growing up that a lotof folks in the generation a little before mine (halfway between my parents amd me) worshipped the music of the fifties and thought that rock and roll had gone down hill, that doo wop was king, or that Elvis was, anyway. They hated the music of the sixties and anything that came after. </p>
<p>I told myself I’d never get that way.</p>
<p>Doo Wop lives…</p>
<p>Absolutely.</p>
<p>Grand Funk Railroad (the American Band)
Rare Earth (Get Ready…the long version)
T Rex (Bang a Gong)
Bread (If)
America (out in the country and Ventura hwy)
The Guess Who (These Eyes and Share the land)
ZZ Top (Beer drinkers and Hell Raisers)
The Monkee’s (Take the Last Train to Clarksdale)
Tommy James and the Shondells (Crimson and Clover, Crystal Blue Persuasion, Sweet Cherry Wine)
Steve Miller Band
Jefferson Airplane
Traffic
The Allman Brothers (Sweet Melisa)
Deep Purple
All Stewart (the Year of the Cat)
Free
Bob Dylan
The Rollin stones
Frank Zappa
Cream
The Doors
Pink Floyd
Van Morrison
The Moody Blues
Nike Drake (Suicide is Painless)
Blind Faith
mamas and the papas</p>
<p>Our son is a music performance major. He studies classical composers and then plays with his buddies in a garage band, mostly 70s and 80s stuff.</p>
<p>We’ve found that he and other students studying music seem much more open to ALL kinds of music. Son knows and embraces all the Beatles, Sting, Clapton, etc.<br>
It’s funny to me, his very non musical mom, to hear him go on and on about a classical piece he’s working on in one breath and then a Beatles tune in the next.
I like it.</p>
<p>My husband and I like the classics and contemporary rock. Husband is also a huge jazz music fan.</p>
<p>My favorite satellite radio stations are The Pulse and the Spectrum, which play a nice variety of the old and the new. I love Coldplay and Dave Matthews as much as I used to love Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. I find it enjoyable to play music I grew up with and sing along, but c’mon, to listen to the same songs for 30 years gets a little old. My oldest son is much more into music from the Woodstock era and has downloaded all of the Who’s music. My other two kids are aware of that music but prefer contemporary.</p>
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<p>Madonna–Like a Prayer (1989)…don’t flame me!</p>
<p>I have “Classic R & B” on right now and love it!</p>
<p>Classic albums from the 80s, off the top of my head:</p>
<p>Joshua Tree – U2
The Unforgettable Fire – U2
War – U2
The River – Springsteen
Born in the USA – Springsteen
Nebraska – Springsteen
Graceland – Paul Simon
Purple Rain – Prince
The Pretenders – The Pretenders
She’s So Unusual – Cyndi Lauper
Document – REM
Life’s Rich Pageant – REM
So – Peter Gabriel
Sandanista – The Clash</p>
<p>Thank you, garland. I was just about to do the same thing, including a number of the same records.</p>
<p>Also – </p>
<p>Talking Heads: Remain in Light, Speaking in Tongues, Little Creatures
Cowboy Junkies: The Trinity Sessions
The Violent Femmes: Violent Femmes
NWA: Straight Outta Compton
The B-52s: Rock Lobster
Public Enemy: It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
John Mellencamp: Scarecrow
The Beastie Boys: Licensed To Ill
Jane’s Addiction: Ritual de lo Habitual
Los Lobos: Will The Wolf Survive?
k.d. lang: Shadowlands, Absolute Torch And Twang
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: (a whole bunch of stuff)
Prince: 1999, Sign O The Times, Around The World
Elvis Costello: (everything worthwhile that isn’t on his first three albums)
The Cure: (a bunch)
The Smiths: (a bunch)
Fela Kuti: (a bunch)</p>
<p>adding:</p>
<p>Don’t Tell a Soul - The Replacements
The Raw and the Cooked - Fine Young Cannibals
Seconds of Pleasure - Rockpile</p>
<p>JHS and garland, your list sounds / looks like my iPod. The Clash, the Cure, Beastie Boys, U2, Talking Heads. I’d also add the Cars.</p>
<p>PG–I was just thinking this morning that i’d missed the Cars!</p>
<p>How about The Police, Ghost In The Machine?</p>
<p>(The 80s is my least-favorite decade for music, too. It just wasn’t THAT bad.)</p>